Tiantang

Chapter 62 Yang Yuhuan's Hidden Worry and Li Longji's Probe (Part [-])

Chapter 068 Yang Yuhuan's hidden worries and Li Longji's exploration

"Furthermore, I use Anlu Mountain again, but I use Hu to control Hu..."

"In general, An Lushan's merits outweigh his demerits. As long as he dare not overstep the rules in front of me, I can tolerate his petty problems of corruption, perverting the law, lust, and greed for money. As for a little bit of ambition, I can burn it away at any time , to destroy his ambitions that he shouldn't have."

When Li Longji said this, his face was radiant, and the power of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and Tian Khan radiated.

Yang Yuhuan listened silently, but sighed inwardly.

She has been with Li Longji for so many years, and she knows his suspicious, authoritarian and self-willed temperament too well.Yang Yuhuan was actually quite skeptical that An Lushan was sitting at the top of the mountain, could the emperor really control him firmly?

Li Longji seldom really trusted any of his subjects, whether it was Zhang Jiuling and Li Linfu before, or Yang Guozhong and An Lushan today, they had never gained his full trust.

Supporting Anlu Mountain outside, seems to be fatuous and conniving to the courtiers, but it is actually a secret arrangement.The more An Lushan was favored outside, the more he would involve Li Linfu who was in the court.And slowly cultivate Yang Guozhong, also in order to check and balance Li Linfu.

But now that Li Linfu died, the value of An Lushan's existence obviously changed from checking and balancing Li Linfu to checking and balancing Yang Guozhong.Yang Guozhong was originally a pawn to check and balance Li Linfu, but he became an object to be checked and balanced by others in a blink of an eye. This kind of identity replacement is probably beyond Yang Guozhong's insight.

Li Longji's scheming is so deep that it is in the palm of his hand to play with the officials of the Tang Dynasty, which can be seen from this.

In other words, Li Longji has already become suspicious of the Yang family, which is gradually becoming a force.Although Yang Guozhong was reused, but now he is ready to calmly train the "pawn" who will fight against Yang Guozhong in the future-and Zhang Xuan, the young man, is probably the candidate that the emperor is looking at at the moment, or one of the candidates.

Thinking of this, Yang Yuhuan tentatively smiled and said, "Sanlang, from the point of view of my slave family, why not let Zhang Xuan be a small official in the Ministry of Rites acting as Guozhong's agent, and then slowly train him to see if he can become a great weapon in the future."

Li Longji snorted, but smiled indifferently, "Young lady, don't worry about these court affairs. Let me think about this matter again."

"I'm going to the imperial study to review the memorial, and I'll have dinner with my wife in the evening." After speaking, Li Longji stood up and strode away.Behind him, a group of court ladies and eunuchs hurriedly followed closely.

"Send Saburo off." Yang Yuhuan got up and shouted, but a hint of resentment floated quietly on her charming face.

Looking at Li Longji's leaving back, where Yang Yuhuan stood, his thoughts were vague but tender.

In fact, she doesn't like Yang Guozhong either, and despises his vulgarity.But in the past few years since she entered the palace, she seems to be extremely favored, but in fact, because she has no children, she hides a silent crisis.

This is the key factor that prevented her from being established as a queen by Li Longji.Now that the confidante is still there, it's okay to be favored by the emperor, but when her youth is gone and her youth is gone, what will she expect when she loses her beauty?
Therefore, in her heart, the emperor may not be reliable, only the Yang family and others are her real reliance in Chang'an City.

But compared to a few years ago, the emperor has recently begun to suppress the power of the Yang family.Although Li Longji concealed it repeatedly, how could the delicate Yang Yuhuan not notice it?

In Yang Yuhuan's view, this is some kind of sign that her favor is dwindling.Once the Yang family loses power, it will also be the time when she, the noble concubine of the Tang Dynasty, will fall out of favor.

Thinking of this, Yang Yuhuan sighed softly, turned around desolately, and waved his hand, "Come here, I want to take a bath and change clothes."

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For Zhang Xuan, the sudden turn of fate and the arrival of opportunities were too fast, and did not leave him much time to weigh and weigh.

At the court meeting on the second day, as expected by Yang Yuhuan, Yang Guozhong proposed to recommend Zhang Xuan as an official.

Zhang Xuan's courage and insight and his faint "hostility" towards An Lushan won the favor of Yang Guozhong. He felt that if such a young and promising scholar was cultivated, he would be his right-hand man in the future.

Moreover, Zhang Xuan was born in a famous family, not only the Zhang family, but also powerful families like the Cui family and Princess Yuzhen's super backer. For Yang Guozhong, taking Zhang Xuan under his family was very important for Yang Guozhong to stabilize his power position and win him over. The faction of the Chaozhong Qingliu has far-reaching positive significance.

From Yang Guozhong's point of view, it was almost certain that Zhang Xuan would be nominated and promoted by the prime minister, the head of the hundred officials, and that Zhang Xuan's reputation would spread far and wide and be appreciated by the emperor.But what he didn't expect was that after hearing the performance, Li Longji was expressionless, neither agreeing nor objecting, and his attitude seemed a little strange.

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In the morning, Zhang Xuan was "exercising" his body in the courtyard.

This body is too weak, Zhang Xuan got up early every day and walked out of the city with a heavy load, running for several miles outside the city, and then slowly walked back to the city. It took about an hour to go back and forth, and he had persisted for a long time.If nothing else, he will continue to persevere.

The body is the capital of the revolution, especially in the troubled Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xuan took this matter very seriously.

Back in the mansion, after breakfast, I spent half an hour studying.Sometimes Pei Hui would rush over to review books with Zhang Xuan, but when Pei Hui wasn't here, Zhang Xuan would be doing Tai Chi in the courtyard as if he remembered it from his previous life, moving his body around.

His boxing is fierce and powerful, but Zhang Xuan's boxing moves are soft in the eyes of the two little girls like smoke and jade. Pushing left and right, twisting waist and hips, just like the dance of a singer, the more you watch Feel weird.

The two girls got together and watched Zhang Xuan punching slowly, while discussing something in a low voice.At this time, Zhang Li, the servant, came from the front yard in a hurry, and yelled as soon as he entered the courtyard: "Third Young Master, Young Master! Overjoyed, the two elders have good news, and they want Third Young Master to go to the front hall to talk. "

Zhang Xuan retracted his fists, let out a long breath, then turned his head to look at Zhang Li and said indifferently, "Zhang Zhang, why are you yelling?"

"Come on, I'll ask you, but I can't find Chou Yinmao. Okay, you go back, I'll wash my face and go to the front hall."

With that said, Zhang Xuan turned around and walked into the room.

Ruyan and Ruyu ran away in a hurry, rushing ahead of Zhang Xuan like a gust of wind, one with a face to wash Zhang Xuan's face, the other carefully wiped the sweat beads on Zhang Xuan's forehead with a sweat towel.

After Zhang Xuan washed his face and changed into a robe, when he went to the front hall, all members of the Zhang family - Zhang Jiuming, Zhang Jiugao, Liu Shi, Zhang Huan and Zhang Ning brothers, including Zhang Huan's wife Song Shi, Zhang Ning's wife, Jiao Shi, was waiting excitedly and anxiously in the hall.

At today's court meeting, Yang Guozhong, the prime minister of the court, took the initiative to nominate and recommend Zhang Xuan as a doctor of the Ministry of Rites.When the news came, Zhang Jiuming and Zhang Jiugao almost cheered for it.

The two of them have been up and down for decades, and they just got into the official position of the fourth rank, and this nephew of his family does not need to pass the Chunwei scientific examination to get the real position of the fifth rank. Such a high starting point-and it is obvious that he will become Yang Guozhong How could he not make the two of them excited?

So after the court, the two of them didn't bother to go back to the mansion, so they came to Zhang's mansion together and informed everyone in the Zhang family of the good news.

(End of this chapter)